She tickles him, makes faces, pushes his cheeks in, adjusts his eyebrows… it’s as though she’s testing his facial functioning, giving him some odd face massage, or testing his resistance to break character.

Grumpy Dog

He received over two million views and, as of this writing, earlthegrump has 26.8k followers on Instagram (from just 38 posts). Even though it looks like Earl never smiles, which is because of an underbite, his owner told the Mirror that he is very friendly.

A second generation puggle (his parents were crossbreeds, too), Earl is a pug and beagle mix.